Comments on: Is the City of Santa Ana’s anti-graffiti ordinance working? http://newsantaana.com/2009/12/27/is-the-city-of-santa-anas-anti-graffiti-ordinance-working/ Santa Ana's top news & views blog Mon, 21 May 2012 16:45:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: urbandrum1 http://newsantaana.com/2009/12/27/is-the-city-of-santa-anas-anti-graffiti-ordinance-working/comment-page-1/#comment-1257 urbandrum1 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:25:47 +0000 http://newsantaana.com/?p=1431#comment-1257 As a former graff writer and current member of greater Orange/LA county underground art community, and the community as a whole I feel I have in-depth insight to the problem. We need to understand the underlying issues at hand. 1.) Art is not excepted, or respected as lucrative (I.E. there is no money in it) especially as a parent working two jobs; however, it takes some vision to be creative. Just ask Walt Disney before he was a "business man" he was just some artist with a vision. . . .I wonder if he had grown up in Santa Ana, Anaheim or anywhere in Orange County if there would even be a "Disneyland"? I highly doubt it! 2.) many parents are struggling to make ends meet working two jobs to maintain an unrealistic standard of living that is more based on television fantasy then real world reality. unfortunately the streets are not paved with oro. contrary to the beliefs of some. 3.) Respect is not respected anymore. . .cops look at every citizen as a potential suspect, so in turn citizens "documented and undocumented" view cops with the same contempt. yet the police force still demands respect, but have no problem skirting the law/constitution to make that bust. Kids and young adults are not stupid they see this, so their mentality becomes one of. . ."f@#k the police!" 4.) The few programs that cities do have for teens usually don't focus on the real pressures they face with sex, drugs, gangs, problems at home, jobs, abuse, and so forth, and they never support art that may have a view contrary to what we in society believe to be "the norm"(at least not until they are dead). then these programs for fear of offending someone or saying the wrong thing communicates with them at a first grade level. As a child I always respected those adults that spoke with me at an adult level more than those that questioned my intelligence(at five I knew what my pee pee was for). As a teen when faced with going to some lame ass city sanctioned event designed by people that were out of touch and uninteresting or running around having fun busting graffiti, I would have to say that graffiti sounds more appealing. do adults really think that they should candy coat everything, I mean these kids are not blind to the realities of the streets they unlike there parents walk home from school. . .they just do not have hope! As a former graff writer and current member of greater Orange/LA county underground art community, and the community as a whole I feel I have in-depth insight to the problem. We need to understand the underlying issues at hand.

1.) Art is not excepted, or respected as lucrative (I.E. there is no money in it) especially as a parent working two jobs; however, it takes some vision to be creative. Just ask Walt Disney before he was a “business man” he was just some artist with a vision. . . .I wonder if he had grown up in Santa Ana, Anaheim or anywhere in Orange County if there would even be a “Disneyland”? I highly doubt it!

2.) many parents are struggling to make ends meet working two jobs to maintain an unrealistic standard of living that is more based on television fantasy then real world reality. unfortunately the streets are not paved with oro. contrary to the beliefs of some.

3.) Respect is not respected anymore. . .cops look at every citizen as a potential suspect, so in turn citizens “documented and undocumented” view cops with the same contempt. yet the police force still demands respect, but have no problem skirting the law/constitution to make that bust. Kids and young adults are not stupid they see this, so their mentality becomes one of. . .”f@#k the police!”

4.) The few programs that cities do have for teens usually don’t focus on the real pressures they face with sex, drugs, gangs, problems at home, jobs, abuse, and so forth, and they never support art that may have a view contrary to what we in society believe to be “the norm”(at least not until they are dead). then these programs for fear of offending someone or saying the wrong thing communicates with them at a first grade level. As a child I always respected those adults that spoke with me at an adult level more than those that questioned my intelligence(at five I knew what my pee pee was for). As a teen when faced with going to some lame ass city sanctioned event designed by people that were out of touch and uninteresting or running around having fun busting graffiti, I would have to say that graffiti sounds more appealing.

do adults really think that they should candy coat everything, I mean these kids are not blind to the realities of the streets they unlike there parents walk home from school. . .they just do not have hope!

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